Davis Elkins

Davis Elkins (24 January 1876-5 January 1959) was a US Senator from West Virginia (R) from 9 to 31 January 1911 (succeeding Stephen B. Elkins and preceding Clarence W. Watson) and from 4 March 1919 to 3 March 1925 (succeeding Nathan Goff, Jr. and preceding Guy D. Goff).

Biography
Davis Elkins was born in Washington DC in 1876, and he served in the US Army during the Spanish-American War. He became an industrialist before being appointed to succeed his father Stephen B. Elkins in the US Senate in 1911, and he served in the Army in France during World War I. From 1919 to 1925, he returned to the Senate for one term, and he died in 1959.